It’s easier to haul it to the dump than to burn it, honestly.
And we’d all need trucks if we were taking trash from several houses. We don’t.
Naw, it’s either we haul our trash, or we keep paying.
(I do have both a mulch pile and a brush pile. Kitchen scraps get composted with the fall leaves in the mulch pile. Branches that fall out get trimmed go in the brush pile.)
Or move. want an apartment in NYC? @ao_fan may give you a good price!
Do we know Lucy’s feelings on the song Doe, a Deer?
Does sound like an opportunity for a competitor to move in.
We don’t pay for trash pickup here. Residential pickup is paid for by the city, which contracts directly with the garbage monopoly here. I think the prices are reasonable though. But I’m honestly not sure what the city is paying.
Well, you pay for it, they just don’t show you the line item!
My city does trash, compost, and recycling. The city owns the trucks and charged us. I think we pay about $20/mo for weekly trash and twice-a-month on the other two. I’m fine with this.
I’m not entirely annoyed by this (husband tried to shame me for laughing about it) but turns our there is a flasher in my town that goes around to different yoga studios and shows off his manparts. It happened at our studio this weekend so the owner decided to alert everybody on the Facebook group. I’m not sure how to avoid penises on the loose, but it’s nice to know this guy got axed from the studio.
I bought some frozen tandoori naan at a local Asian/Halal store. Oh Lordie, they are bland (butter can’t save these fluffers!!) and the texture is awful!!! They’re going right into the compost bin!!! 
Ya know, this would be a great addition to the Insignficant Signals thread!!! 
The yoga instructer that I regularly go to said she would have responded by calling out the flasher and having everybody in the room shame him into leaving. That would have been awesome.
But don’t flashers WANT attention?!
Sounds gross. Probably hairy, too. Definitely not zen.
Correct. It’s part of my property taxes. In theory the fact that we don’t get a separate bill for it should make it cheaper as they don’t have to bill everyone and chase down delinquent payers and stuff. I mean, they were already going to do that for the property taxes anyway, so it’s easier on everyone to pay one larger bill than multiple smaller ones. And a lot of property tax is paid for by mortgage lenders via escrow, so it’s less likely to be delinquent in the first place.
Of course I haven’t audited the finances to know if it’s really playing out that way.
Sometimes bad bread can be salvaged as breadcrumbs for meatloaf … mixed with crumbs of tastier bread if need be. Up to you.
Interesting suggestion!! I’ll dry them out in the oven and give them a good grinding!!! 
Ours are billed separately, which I think has the added disadvantage that since they are trash pickup fees, they aren’t tax deductible (currently irrelevant since I take standard deduction). One advantage of separate fees: there is one cost if the owner puts his trash at the curb, a higher cost, maybe double, if they pick up the cans from the rear of your house. In my neighborhood, I believe everyone does curb.
For curbside, ours is $300 per year. I didn’t think it was that much, but I just confirmed.
What?!?! 
I have never heard of such a thing!
Counting my parents’ homes, I have lived in 14 houses in 7 states and never heard of residential trash pickup happening anywhere but the curb. Add in other relatives that I’ve stayed with enough to know how trash pickup worked and it’s probably more like 25 homes in 15 states.
At apartments and offices they’ll get the dumpster wherever it is, but they have input on the location of the dumpster.
Anyway, you could certainly restrict the “free” trash pickup to the basic level of service.
Where I live now we have to pay extra if we want a second can picked up. I never need more than one, and sometimes don’t bother to put the one trash can out even when I didn’t forget because there’s hardly anything in there. But my neighbors with 3 kids generate a lot more trash than me and have two cans. 
The owner/instructor who could testify to the hairiness of said offender could get us the tapes - you know - the videos she records of us when we’re doing yoga. Not sure the wild penis or the camera footage of my sweaty ass is more creepy.
i’ll be the judge of that!!!
I was out doing errands when I found myself by the Hungarian deli: it’s closed Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. 
